Human Errors: A Panorama of Our Glitches, from Pointless Bones to Broken Genes
ISBN-13:
9781328974693
ISBN-10:
1328974693
Edition:
First Edition
Author:
Nathan H. Lents
Publication date:
2018
Publisher:
Mariner Books
Format:
Hardcover
256 pages
Category:
Anatomy
,
Biological Sciences
,
Biology
,
Evolution
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ISBN-13:
9781328974693
ISBN-10:
1328974693
Edition:
First Edition
Author:
Nathan H. Lents
Publication date:
2018
Publisher:
Mariner Books
Format:
Hardcover
256 pages
Category:
Anatomy
,
Biological Sciences
,
Biology
,
Evolution
Summary
Human Errors: A Panorama of Our Glitches, from Pointless Bones to Broken Genes (ISBN-13: 9781328974693 and ISBN-10: 1328974693), written by authors
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Description
An illuminating, entertaining tour of the physical imperfections that make us human
We humans like to think of ourselves as highly evolved creatures. But if we are supposedly evolution’s greatest creation, why do we have such bad knees? Why do we catch head colds so often—two hundred times more often than a dog does? How come our wrists have so many useless bones? Why is the vast majority of our genetic code pointless? And are we really supposed to swallow and breathe through the same narrow tube? Surely there’s been some kind of mistake.
As professor of biology Nathan H. Lents explains in Human Errors, our evolutionary history is nothing if not a litany of mistakes, each more entertaining and enlightening than the last. The human body is one big pile of compromises. But that is also a testament to our greatness: as Lents shows, humans have so many design flaws precisely because we are very, very good at getting around them.
A rollicking, deeply informative tour of humans’ four billion year long evolutionary saga, Human Errors both celebrates our imperfections and offers an unconventional accounting of the cost of our success.
We humans like to think of ourselves as highly evolved creatures. But if we are supposedly evolution’s greatest creation, why do we have such bad knees? Why do we catch head colds so often—two hundred times more often than a dog does? How come our wrists have so many useless bones? Why is the vast majority of our genetic code pointless? And are we really supposed to swallow and breathe through the same narrow tube? Surely there’s been some kind of mistake.
As professor of biology Nathan H. Lents explains in Human Errors, our evolutionary history is nothing if not a litany of mistakes, each more entertaining and enlightening than the last. The human body is one big pile of compromises. But that is also a testament to our greatness: as Lents shows, humans have so many design flaws precisely because we are very, very good at getting around them.
A rollicking, deeply informative tour of humans’ four billion year long evolutionary saga, Human Errors both celebrates our imperfections and offers an unconventional accounting of the cost of our success.
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